What I tried:Installed a fresh Ubuntu 15.10 Desktop (64 bit). Then got all necessary packages mentioned in the compile guide. After that, I downloaded Warzone 3.1.3 from here:https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2 ... /3.1.3.zipunpacked it and entered "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make".

This does not work (see error message above). It seems that you need to download the sources via git commands.

--> So I installed git package (not mentioned in compile guide). Then used this commend for download:git clone https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100 -b 3.1.3 --single-branch(Not sure if this is right but seems to work somehow...)

Then went into the WZ directory and started "./autogen.sh && ./configure && make". -> no Error now!

Meanwhile I've realized that user Staff wrote something about "git fetch origin --tags; git checkout 3.1.3" in his initial post. That I had already tried. But it did not work of course, because there wasn't any git configuration.Still not certainly sure if this was the reason for the whole problem...

No, that won't work, we generate some things when we create the tarball. That is why we specify that you get files from SourceForge.

This does not work (see error message above). It seems that you need to download the sources via git commands.

--> So I installed git package (not mentioned in compile guide). Then used this commend for download:git clone https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100 -b 3.1.3 --single-branch(Not sure if this is right but seems to work somehow...)

Well, you could do that, a bit ugly IMO, but, hey, if that works for you... fine.

Meanwhile I've realized that user Staff wrote something about "git fetch origin --tags; git checkout 3.1.3" in his initial post. That I had already tried. But it did not work of course, because there wasn't any git configuration.Still not certainly sure if this was the reason for the whole problem...

Once you clone the repo, there isn't any extra git specific configuration needed.In this case, you just downloaded the wrong thing from the wrong place.

vexed wrote:No, that won't work, we generate some things when we create the tarball. That is why we specify that you get files from SourceForge.(...)In this case, you just downloaded the wrong thing from the wrong place.

Yes, that was my mistake. The Linux Compile Guide offers two options:- Getting The Source From A Tarball- Getting The Source From GitI decided to do the latter, and did it in a wrong way.

Thanks for all your help!!

Maybe next Ubuntu Version (April 2016) could have Warzone 3.1.3 in Debian repository? It still seems to be 3.1.1 at Debian.What would be necessary to update Debian repository?

gypakk wrote:...Maybe next Ubuntu Version (April 2016) could have Warzone 3.1.3 in Debian repository? It still seems to be 3.1.1 at Debian.What would be necessary to update Debian repository?

We have 0 control over distros & maintainers.You would have to e-mail them and ask them to update it, or however that works on each distro.

I added this note:For LINUX people (that don't want to compile it themselves) use http://www.playdeb.net/app/Warzone2100 since that usually has the latest version available, and maintainers & distros are very slow on updating the game!

vexed wrote:You would have to e-mail them and ask them to update it, or however that works on each distro.

Good idea, will do that!

vexed wrote:For LINUX people (that don't want to compile it themselves) use http://www.playdeb.net/app/Warzone2100 since that usually has the latest version available, and maintainers & distros are very slow on updating the game!

Excellent!!Downloaded the game from PlayDeb. It works fine.The only thing is, that the interface is in German. When I try switching to English_UK or en_US it promptly returns to German. Seems to be a German-only version at PlayDeb.